About Me

Mitch Wheat has been working as a professional programmer since 1984, graduating with a honours degree in Mathematics from Warwick University, UK in 1986. He moved to Perth in 1995, having worked in software houses in London and Rotterdam. He has worked in the areas of mining, electronics, research, defence, financial, GIS, telecommunications, engineering, and information management.
Mitch has worked mainly with Microsoft technologies (since Windows version 3.0) but has also used UNIX. He holds the following Microsoft certifications: MCPD (Web and Windows) using C# and SQL Server MCITP (Admin and Developer). His preferred development environment is C#, .Net Framework and SQL Server. Mitch has worked as an independent consultant for the last 10 years, and is currently involved with helping teams improve their Software Development Life Cycle. His areas of special interest lie in performance tuning

Friday, September 07, 2007

Excellent Meeting, Great Turnout

And I’m not talking about Sydney APEC conference! Last night’s Perth .NET user group presentation with speaker Nick Wienholt was excellent, and we had another great turnout (I counted 47 people). Here are a few photos of the meeting:

(Apologies about the quality of the photos, they aren’t the best; I have no excuses!)

After the meeting we went for a meal at ‘Arirang’, a nearby Korean BBQ restaurant. Good thing I took a couple of photos before the BBQ got fired up, as it got a bit smokey later on (as Dave will confirm!):

Thanks to Nick Wienholt for taking time out to give a well received, very informative and useful session, and thanks to everyone for attending. Hope to see you all in a month’s time. Speaking of which, we have another guest speaker signed up who is flying in from Sydney. I’m sure most people will know him. A clue to his identity might be the topic: An introduction to Visual Studio 2008.